How To Make People Think Peace
Vishnu Bhagwat
THE PRACTICE OF WAR: PRODUCTION, REPRODUCTION AND COMMUNICATION OF ARMED VIOLENCE by Aparna Basu Cambridge University Press, New Delhi, 2014, 346 pp., 995
March 2014, volume 38, No 3

The last century continuing into the present one has seen the bloodiest and most destructive violence in recorded history carried into homes, habitats and whole communities, almost the wiping out of civilizations like the Mesopatamian in Iraq as chronicled in William Engdahl’s Century of War: Imperial Wars for Resources and Markets under the aegis of the Colonization and Recolonization Project. In her intro-duction to the book, Elisabeth Colson of the University of Berkeley, under the heading, ‘Fomenting of War’ says, ‘One does not have to be a Marxist to recognize that economic factors are intimately involved with war and with fomenting the instability (as recently as seen in Iraq, Libya, Syria, Somalia, South Sudan, Rwanda and indeed in all of the non Anglo-Saxon world) that leads to war.’

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